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Time for another question and answer session courtesy of Geniaus, this time it is The Ancestors’ Geneameme. Time to test my knowledge of my ancestors and see how much I actually know. I am sure you know the text formating by now, but just in case:

Things you have already done or found: bold face typeThings you would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional)
Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type

Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents

Can name over 50 direct ancestors

Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents

Have an ancestor who was married more than three times

Have an ancestor who was a bigamist

Met all four of my grandparents

Met one or more of my great-grandparents

Named a child after an ancestor

Bear an ancestor’s given name/s

Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland

Have an ancestor from Asia

Have an ancestor from Continental Europe

Have an ancestor from Africa

Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer

Have an ancestor who had large land holdings

Have an ancestor who was a holy man – minister, priest, rabbi

Have an ancestor who was a midwife

Have an ancestor who was an author

Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones

Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng

Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X

Have an ancestor with a forename beginning with Z

Have an ancestor born on 25th December

Have an ancestor born on New Year’s Day

Have blue blood in your family lines

Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth

Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth

Can trace a direct family line back to the eighteenth century

Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier

Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents

Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X

Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university

Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence

Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime

Have shared an ancestor’s story online or in a magazine (on this blog)

Have published a family history online or in print

Have visited an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries

Still have an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family

Have a family bible from the 19th Century

Have a pre-19th century family bible

I think the results reflect my ordinary run of the mill ancestors quite well, they never travelled far or owned great amounts of money/property or aspired to high office, just normal everyday folk. Just like me in fact!